TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

State and Local Issues

Detroit’s bankruptcy: What does it mean for other cities?

July 19, 2013 –
Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection yesterday, giving it the dubious distinction of being the largest municipal bankruptcy ever. By doing so, the city...
Individual Taxes

Do Low-Income Taxpayers Cheat?

July 18, 2013 –
My blog last Tuesday on overblown concerns about people falsely claiming subsides under the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges generated a lot of response. Much...
Individual Taxes

Will Obamacare Delays Encourage Health Exchange Cheating?

July 16, 2013 –
The latest flap over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act involves the ability of the IRS to verify the income people use to calculate...
Individual Taxes

The Fed and America’s Debt

July 15, 2013 –
Is the Federal Reserve part of the government? You might think so, but you wouldn’t know it from the way we talk about America’s debt...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Not to Fix the IRS

July 11, 2013 –
House Republicans have decided to make the IRS their summer piñata. Its leadership says it will bring a series of anti-IRS proposals to the floor...
Individual Taxes

Not All Curbs on Tax Preferences Are Created Equal

July 10, 2013 –
Because politicians seem unwilling to confront specific individual tax preferences, it is likely that any broad-based tax reform will be based on across-the-board curbs on...
State and Local Issues

A New TPC Resource on State Economic Conditions

July 9, 2013 –
It isn’t easy to get up-to-date information about state and local economic conditions. Now, a new one-stop resource from The Tax Policy Center’s State and...
Federal Budget and Economy

Are Low Interest Rates Masking Future Deficits?

July 9, 2013 –
Thanks to artificially low interest rates, the United States has been able to finance deficits exceeding $1 trillion every year from 2009 through 2012 at...
Federal Budget and Economy

Smart Tax Reform Could Shrink the Government

July 8, 2013 –
Max Baucus and Dave Camp, leaders of the Senate and House tax-writing committees, are on the road promoting tax simplification. One goal: cleaning out the...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Baucus-Hatch “Blank Slate” Approach to Tax Reform Could Be Revolutionary

July 3, 2013 –
No one quite knows what exactly Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) mean when they say they will...